PARTNERS
Cloudflare + Microsoft 365
Deliver a faster and more secure user experience with Microsoft and Cloudflare
Cloudflare Email Security deploys and integrates in minutes with Office 365 to seal its protection profile with a preemptive, comprehensive, and accountable defense from socially engineered phish. The anti-phishing capabilities of Cloudflare Email Security fit tightly with the email security features included in Office 365, including anti-spam, DLP, encryption, and archive to provide total, seamless email security against phishing attacks.
Cloudflare has also become a certified partner in the Microsoft Networking Partner Program (NPP) for Microsoft 365. Microsoft has designed this program to offer customers a select set of partners whose deployment practices and guidance are aligned with Microsoft’s networking recommendations for Microsoft 365 to provide users a fast and secure user experience.
Integrated Email Security
Cloudflare Email Security proactively crawls the web to discover phishing campaigns and uses that early insight, plus contextual email analysis techniques, to protect employee inboxes from phishing attacks — before damage can occur. Deploy Cloudflare Email Security in just minutes for a best-of-breed, defense-in-depth anti-phishing security layer for your Microsoft 365 email users.
Benefits
Reduce risk of breach
Lower the cyber risk from your organization’s #1 threat vector — email.
Save time on incident response
Built-in phishing response reduces the time spent investigating and remediating suspicious email incidents.
Peace of mind
Keep end users productive and confident that inboxes are free of the most sophisticated campaigns, such as malware-less BEC and supply chain email attacks.
Cloudflare One simplifies administration, improves control, and increases visibility
Keeping up with Microsoft’s continuous IP and URL changes can be daunting, and missing an update can adversely impact the user experience. Cloudflare One simplifies administration by making Office 365 as easy as a 1-click checkbox.
Cloudflare peers with Microsoft in major data centers
Delivering extremely fast connection times between the user and Office 365 applications, Cloudflare’s network spans across 275+ cities and peers with Microsoft around the world with 7 private interconnects and 113 Internet exchanges with private/public peering.
Benefits
Identify and differentiate Office 365 traffic
One-click configuration automatically optimizes your Office 365 traffic without administration effort.
Route your Office 365 traffic directly via the Microsoft network
Sending directly via the Microsoft network helps deliver through the fastest path.
Bypass inspection proxies
Cloudflare One enables you to bypass your security appliances per Microsoft’s recommendation, while still securing the rest of your Internet traffic.
What our partners are saying
"We’re thrilled to welcome Cloudflare into the Networking Partner Program for Microsoft 365. Cloudflare is a valued partner that is focused on helping Microsoft 365 customers implement the Microsoft 365 Network Connectivity Principles. Microsoft only recommends Networking Partner Program member solutions for connectivity to Microsoft 365."
-Scott Schnoll
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft
If you're interested in learning more about our partner integrations with Microsoft, please get in touch.
Resources
SOLUTION & PRODUCT GUIDES
Secure Hybrid Work with Microsoft + Cloudflare
In this solution brief, learn about Cloudflare's integrations (CES, ZTNA, CASB, DLP) with Microsoft and how layering a Zero Trust approach can enhance your Microsoft security.
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How to replace your email gateway with Cloudflare Cloud Email Security
Learn how the Cloudflare Cloud Email Security (formerly called Area 1) anti-phishing service complements Microsoft 365’s security features.
SOLUTION & PRODUCT GUIDES
Microsoft 365 + Cloudflare Cloud Email Security Partner Brief
Learn how Cloudflare Cloud Email Security can augment Microsoft's existing defenses and protects against phishing campaigns of all types, from all sources, and across all potential attack vectors.
SOLUTION & PRODUCT GUIDES
Deploying Cloudflare Cloud Email Security
Learn about customers’ different deployment architectures for Cloudflare Cloud Email Security (formerly called Area 1).
SOLUTION & PRODUCT GUIDES
Microsoft + Cloudflare Cloud Email Security Documentation
Learn how Cloudflare Cloud Email Security integrates with Microsoft 365 to detect and block targeted phishing attacks.
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Cloudflare announces participation in Microsoft's NPP
Read about how Cloudflare One helps optimize user connectivity to Microsoft 365 with the Networking Partner Program (NPP).
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Microsoft 365 Networking Partners
Learn more about how Microsoft’s networking partner program helps customers achieve end-to-end connectivity through the most optimized route possible.
SOLUTION & PRODUCT GUIDES
Cloudflare and Microsoft NPP Partner Brief
Learn how Cloudflare Zero Trust supports Microsoft’s connectivity guidance to deliver a faster, more secure user experience.
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Cloudflare Joins Microsoft 365 Networking Partner Program
Find out how NPP deepens the relationship between Cloudflare and Microsoft in the Zero Trust market.
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Managing Clouds - Cloudflare CASB and our not so secret plan for what’s next
Learn about how Cloudflare's CASB integration with Microsoft 365 enables organizations to grant permissions and connect SaaS applications (via API) to CASB for security scanning and management.
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Announcing Gateway + CASB
Learn how Cloudflare's API-driven Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) integrates with Microsoft 365 to help IT and security teams see what applications and services their users are logging into and how company data is being shared.